MS. Digby 33
Summary Catalogue no.: 1634
Physical Description
Composite: six parts
History
MS. Digby 33 – Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
3.
, Epistola aurea Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 15th century, beginning
MS. Digby 33 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th century, beginning
MS. Digby 33 – Part 3
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 12th century
MS. Digby 33 – Part 4
Contents
Treatise on contemplation
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 13th century
MS. Digby 33 – Part 5
Contents
, Meditations
Rubric: [added later] Meditationes quedam beati Bernardi
Incipit: Fac me delectari in dulcedine tua Domine deus vt des mihi peticiones cordis mei
Explicit: quam preparasti diligentibus te domine Iesu Christe rex glorie. Qui cum patre et cetera.
Final rubric: Expliciunt meditaciones beati Bernardi Clareuallens’
As pr. T. H. Bestul, ‘The Meditationes of Alexander of Ashby: An Edition’, Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990), 24–81 (not this manuscript), ll. 99–1081, i.e. without the initial epistle and prologue, or the concluding oratio and invectiones, found in the other manuscript known to preserve the meditations in full (Oxford, Worcester College, MS. 213).
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
MS. Digby 33 – Part 6
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 12th century
Additional Information
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999). Description of part 5 revised by M. Holford, Nov. 2018.
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-11-27: Revised description of part 5.